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![]() Good luck: I was contracted by a German federal institution as independent teacher/trainer/coach/consultant for adult people and from there on the mainstream of my business was created. Later: Formation as psychotherapist ("gestalt-therapy") by a Californian professor who came to Germany to teach therapists. Good time and the advantage to drop being shy of speaking and writing terrible English. It has not become much better, but now for me, it doesn't matter! While working with groups I created a lot of tools for my own purpose. Double advantage: Learning programming languages (BASIC - of course, assembler 86 etc. , C, and more), But from the moment I met Paradox (DOS), I got hooked to it and stayed with it till today (P9). I wrote, rewrote and rewrote again a big application: A learning tool for my workshop-customers. It generates reports of human-like behavior of a fictitious person of some mad and strange manners in a company. My customers could and still can select measures to resolve problems this virtual employee causes, getting new reports of consequences and so on. The funny thing is, that the program is learning too about the prejudices of the player and makes use of what comes out constructing situations and behavior on the fly from fragments which are stored in databases. I combined some techniques of AI, simplified ideas of neuronal network and the formalization of a lot of psychological theory to have the protagonist appear real. Of course he can't be real, some kind of ELIZA, if you know what I mean. This application granted me for a long time (still today) new engagements - good for me and my family. When Laura-Maria, my younger daughter, was born in 1987, my wife and me decided to live at Mallorca, a Spanish Island in the Mediterranean. So I learned some new languages, of course Spanish but more Catalan, because the folks there prefer their own idiom. Laura is now singer in a band of young musicians at Mallorca, well known there and I - proud dad - never miss to mention, that she and the band had a lot of TV-Life actions, Radio hits - and, and, and. Ok, OK, it's no me who had that success, and if I sing, this will be only appreciated by a keeper in the late night club who wants the folk get out. In 1998 people convinced me, to bring my tools to the market and so I did and created a very small company. Now I live again in Germany while my family remains at Mallorca. But I see them as often as possible. It's a growing business (hope so; oh Paradox, don't leave us!) but to earn the 2 coins more, I continue my old consultant job too. Addict to programming I do so, when ever possible, all the day long. And as the community was an enormous help for me (only reading the postings), I decided this year, to participate actively, when I feel to have an idea, well knowing, that there are much more qualified members than me. But I'm a fan of synergies and I am convinced that a less perfect idea may invoke a better one. And I haven't to be a king... so what? Paradox Community Newsgroups |
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